Also effective today, under the new NHTSA mandate, all major light vehicle and motorcycle manufacturers are required to provide VIN search capability for uncompleted recalls on their own websites.

including the NHTSA VIN Decoder website. In my Miata, JM1 is the World Manufacturer Identifier J for Japan, M for Mazda and 1 means it's a Mazda car, not a truck, which might be a JM2. The next ...